While Fantasia made a partial return to in-person screenings this year, I once again covered the festival virtually from home. I’m looking forward to a possible return to Montreal next year, but in the meantime, here is my wrap-up for the 2021 edition of Fantasia Top Ten Favourite Films All the Moons Mad God Ultrasound…
A young man with the ability to talk to cars helps with the creation of a new sentient fleet in King Car. Since he was a kid, Uno (Luciano Pedro Jr.) has had the ability to talk to cars, though he decided to suppress this gift after an accident resulting in the death of his mother….
A Chinese immigrant between a powder-keg romance with a skid-row punk in Baby, Don’t Cry. Baby (Zita Bai) is a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant in Seattle, who has a troubled home life with her mentally ill mother (Helen Sun), which she escapes by shooting home movies. One day Baby confronts 20-year-old drug dealer Fox (Vas Provatakis), in…
An ex-intelligence agent is tasked with transporting the world’s first human clone in Seobok. Min Ki-Hun (Gong Yoo) is a former intelligence agent currently suffering from a terminal brain tumor. Ki-Hun is tracked down by his old boss Chief Ahn (Jo Woo-jin), who wants Ki-Hun to do one last job for “the company.” Sent to…
A strange nighttime encounter kickstarts a life-altering chain of events in Ultrasound. On his way home from a friend’s wedding, Glen (Vincent Kartheiser) has car trouble and seeks help at the house of the unusual married couple of Art (Bob Stephenson) and Cyndi (Chelsea Lopez) and the night ends with Glen being convinced by Art to…
A woman mysteriously resurfaces three days after a car accident in On the 3rd Day. Cecilia Amato (Mariana Anghileri) has set off on a trip with her young son Martin (Octavio Belmonte) but ends up in an accident, where her car is struck by Enrique (Gerardo Romano). Three days later, Cecilia is found in a daze…
Stop-motion master Phil Tippett presents his three decades in development magnum opus with Mad God. In a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs, an intrepid special agent travels on a special mission. Along the way, he passes through a landscape of corruption and decay, with plenty of horrors on the road ahead. Throughout…
A viral pandemic turns people into violent and depraved maniacs in The Sadness. In Taiwan, there is concern over the spread of the Alvin virus, which sports similar characteristics to rabies, however, the government excuses it as being no more serious than the flu. Jim (Berant Zhu) and Kat (Regina Lei) are a couple who get…
A criminal is tasked with recovering a girl from a dangerous wasteland in Prisoners of the Ghostland. Hero (Nicolas Cage) is an American criminal, who was caught after performing a botched bank robbery, with his trigger-happy partner Psycho (Nick Cassavetes), in the Japanese village of Samurai Town. Sometime later, Hero is brought in front of Samurai…
A lonely woman ends up having a passionate affair with the ghost haunting her apartment in Ghosting Gloria. Gloria (Stefania Tortorella) is a bookstore employee, who is in desperate need of getting laid, at least according to her co-worker Sandra (Nenan Pelenur). In addition, Gloria is finding it difficult to sleep in her apartment, due to…
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